Baroque instrumental music in Italy and Germany tends to be strong, lively, intense, controlled and quite abstract.

A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.

His instrumental music, though not without interest, is curiously antiquated as compared with his vocal works.

A cappella ( Italian for " in the manner of the church " or " in the manner of the chapel ", also see gospel music and choir ) music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

In Eastern Europe, the music performed in the Eastern Orthodox cathedrals and monasteries is exclusively sung without instrumental accompaniment.

In the Orthodox Church today, as in the early Church, singing is unaccompanied and instrumental music is not found.

There is no reference to instrumental music in the worship of the New Testament or the worship of churches for the first six centuries.

The absence of instrumental music in New Testament worship is significant given the abundance of Old Testament references and commands.

After several hundred years of Tabernacle worship without instrumental music, King David introduced musical instruments into Temple worship based upon a commandment from God.

This leaves those opposed to instrumental music in worship with the understanding that if God wanted instrumental music in New Testament worship, he would have commanded not just singing, but singing and playing like he did in the Old Testament.

The fact that Christendom has periodically grafted instrumental music into the worship service probably obscures, for contemporary adherents, the long, general and conscientious teaching of a cappella.

Many Jews consider a portion of the 49-day period of the counting of the omer between Passover and Shavuot to be a time of semi-mourning and instrumental music is not allowed during that time.

By the 19th century orchestral music in Europe had standardized the string section into the following homogeneous instrumental groups: first violins, second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.

** School band, a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together

As the 18th century progressed, the nobility became the primary patrons of instrumental music, and there was a rise in the public taste for comic opera.

This led to changes in the way music was performed, the most crucial of which was the move to standard instrumental groups and the reduction in the importance of the continuo — the harmonic fill beneath the music, often played by several instruments.

One way to trace this decline of the continuo and its figured chords is to examine the decline of the term obbligato, meaning a mandatory instrumental part in a work of chamber music.

Importance was given to instrumental music — the main kinds were sonata, trio, string quartet, symphony, concerto, serenade and divertimento.

Opera or other vocal music was the feature of most musical events, with concertos and " symphonies " ( arising from the overture ) serving as instrumental interludes and introductions for operas and church services.

By the end of the 1780s, changes in performance practice, the relative standing of instrumental and vocal music, technical demands on musicians, and stylistic unity had become established in the composers who imitated Mozart and Haydn.

* The instrumental case indicates an object used in performing an action: We wiped the floor with a mop.

While reference to three books of four-voice ricercars by Luzzaschi indicates that he was actively composing instrumental work, the books themselves appear to be lost.

This indicates that Antimachus I might have been instrumental in creating a royal state cult ( see coin description: ).

The myth indicates that a cult image of Aphrodite was instrumental in some way in the founding myth of Paphos.

Somalia has also over the centuries seen successive waves of immigration from Yemen, with Hadhrami settlers being instrumental in helping to consolidate the Muslim community in the coastal Banaadir region in particular.

The thin theory has also been explained by Joseph Raz as emphasizing the formal or instrumental aspects of a legal system regardless of whether it is part of a particular political structure, i. e. a democratic or non-democratic society.

Familiarity with each of the " Four ranges of combat ", in particular, is thought to be instrumental in becoming a " total " martial artist.

In this account of ethnic identification, “ thnicity and race are viewed as instrumental identities, organized as means to particular ends ”.

With Thomas Cook in particular, the Alps appeared, as early as 1861, in the catalog of tourist offers and were instrumental in the establishment of a “ truly international industry ” of tourism.

The Romantic era in music was to accept the centrality of this practice, codify the form explicitly and make instrumental music in this form central to concert and chamber composition and practice, in particular for works that were meant to be regarded as " serious " works of music.

The Muslim World and in particular the Iberian Peninsula, with their traditions of literacy uninterrupted by the Middle Ages, were instrumental in delivering ancient classic works to the growing intellectual circles and universities of Western Europe all through the 1100s, as books were produced there in large numbers and on paper for the first time in Europe, and with them full treatises on the sciences, especially astrology and medicine where illumination was required to have profuse and accurate representations with the text.

Klezmorim based their secular instrumental music upon the devotional vocal music of the synagogue, in particular cantorial music.

" Wilson added that Barker's social science research, in particular her work on the Unification Church, had been instrumental in demonstrating that the brainwashing concept, which for some years had enjoyed popularity in the media, was unable to explain what actually happened in the process of religious conversion, or to explain why so many members of new religious movements actually leave these movements again after a short period.

In particular, Fine Gael's alliance with Fianna Fáil was instrumental in blocking candidates such as Dana Rosemary Scallon.

An étude (;, a French word meaning study ) is an instrumental musical composition, usually short and of considerable difficulty, usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill.

When the town was under Venetian control, the musical style of the Venetians was imported as well ; in particular, a large instrumental ensemble grew up to support the choral singing.

Some become the de facto " trademark " or " signature " of the person or character with whom they originated, and can be instrumental in the typecasting ( beneficially or otherwise ) of a particular actor.

This allows the performers to tailor the music according to the available instrumental forces and the occasion of the performance ( the particular feast day's liturgy would have included suggested antiphons that could be chanted before Monteverdi's psalm settings ).

In Houston, two pioneering radio programs in particular, Marilyn Mock's S & M Show on KTRU-FM and Perry Coma's The Funhouse Show on KPFT-FM, were instrumental in helping create the punk scene in that city, through band interviews and playing import-only records, as well as the flamboyant personalities of the DJs.

This rather unusual instrumental line-up combined with Grey Gull's rather over-modulated sound of their recordings, give these records a particular sound of their own.

In particular, a position paper by the Council was instrumental in convincing Ronald Reagan that it was technically feasible to intercept ballistic missiles in flight.

Burlesque can be used to describe particular movements of instrumental musical compositions, often involving dance rhythms.

The attack and subsequent hardships were instrumental in hardening the attitude of Drake in particular towards Catholicism and Spain.

From these acquaintances Handel learned the essential characteristics of Italian music, in particular ( according to Dean and Knapp ) " fluency in the treatment of Italian verse, accurate declamation and flexible harmonic rhythm in recitative, ... drawing the necessary distinction between vocal and instrumental material and, above all, the release of wonderful melodic gift ".

In the 1960s, Leppard played an instrumental role in the rebirth of interest in baroque music ; in particular, he was one of the first major conductors to perform baroque opera.

He was instrumental in bringing one particular herbal remedy to the public market and actively promoted its effectiveness via print, radio, and television.

In particular Barnes, Beardsley, Houghton and Aldridge were instrumental in Liverpool's 5-0 win over Nottingham Forest on 13 April 1988, a game which Tom Finney described as “ the finest exhibition I ’ ve seen the whole time I ’ ve played and watched the game.

The term “ choro ” was used informally at first to refer to the style of playing, or a particular instrumental ensemble, ( e. g. in the 1870s flutist Joaquim Antônio da Silva Callado formed an ensemble called " Choro Carioca ", with flute, two guitars and cavaquinho ), and later the term referred to the music genre of these ensembles.

In particular, François-Xavier Verschave, former president of the French NGO Survie, which accused the French army of protecting the Hutus during the genocide, was instrumental in establishing this Parliamentary commission.